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He added: “We are now intending to start on site very soon after Easter and the project is scheduled to be completed at the end of August 2015, in time for the beginning of the 2015-16 academic year.”

The college has two other campuses in West Oxfordshire, at Common Leys Farm, near Hailey, where rural and equestrian courses are taught, and the Avenue One construction training centre, off Station Lane, in Witney.

Witney Town Council also backed the college’s plan but it will request funding linked to the development to pay for the provision of an extra lane at the traffic lights at the junction of Welch Way and Woodford Way.